IAFOR Barcelona July 13-15, 2018Guernica porPablo Picasso (1937) The IAFORInternational Conference on GlobalStudies 2018 "Fearful Futures: Cultural Studies and the Question ofAgency in the Twenty-First Century" We have reached a momentin international history that is one of potentia...

David Fulton (Toowoomba 26-11-1927-Barcelona 19-02-2017)Today, November 26, documentaryfilmmaker David Fulton would have celebrated his 90thbirthday. In loving memory, here is a transcript of thetalk David gave at the PACIFICSOLUTIONS International Congress , 12-15December, 2011, under the auspices of the ...

BARCELONAThankyou all for the love, the calls and messages that have poured in from all over the world. As far as we know, everyone close to us is safe and well and our hearts go out to all those who suffered yesterday's attack directly.

"Cities of the World. World Cities."Italo Calvino says that the delight you takein a city is not through the wonders it offers but in the answer it gives to apersonal question. I remember the moment when I first said aloud “This is whereI want to live.” Barcelona became an ultimate destina...

http://www.amazon.es/All-Those-Wars-Gloria-Montero/dp/1499355173/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456398219&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Gloria+Montero+all+thosse+warsSet in a small town in tropical Australia and narrated by the child Rora, the seven stories of 'All Those Wars' evoke new and surprising facets of dramatic events from the first half of the Twentieth Century—the two World Wars and the Spanish Civil War. Rora's stories throw into bold relief an assortment of displaced characters: the rueful veteran of Gallipoli; the flamboyant Elvala and Nando, come from Italy to build a new life; the Polish count who studied piano with Paderewski; the wise circus dwarfs; Jimmy, the aborigine yardman at the Convent; the Irish and Italian families who own the sugar cane farms around the town; Rora's own family, immigrants from northern Spain. As the child astutely assesses the people about her, she begins to see life itself as something of a war.

http://www.amazon.es/Frida-K-Dialogue-Single-Actress/dp/1496042670/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456397904&sr=8-1&keywords=a+dialogue+for+a+single+actressGloria Montero's award-winning 'Frida K.--A Dialogue for a Single Actress' takes place on the day of Frida's first and only solo exhibition in her native Mexico. As Frida, devastated by poor health, prepares not only for her exhibition but for her approaching death she rages about what her life has been in an ongoing dialogue with Death itself. Her tormented marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, his many infidelities, her own affairs with Trotsky and others, are all told against a background of the fashionable art scenes of Paris and New York, the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. In this ruthless encounter with her own end, Frida reveals how a life of crippling pain has been transformed into paintings of terrifying power. The book includes photos from different productions.